Question on BMW 3-Series E36 Shift_Bushings

HI, HOPING YOU CAN HELP... MY FIANCE AND I had just bought my daughter her first car .... a 1990 Bmw 5351 5 series ... don't ask. LOL Anyways, the other day I was trying to teach my daughter how to drive a stick shift ...... she started out in first real smooth, shifted to 2nd no problem. Then , when she tried to put it in 3rd ... she was having problems.I thought she was just nervous and trying to hard to get it to go in gear .... but even when I tried ,, same thing hard to shift to 3rd. I had her pull of to the side of the road, and we sat there for a good 10-15 minutes while she practiced going thrugh the shifting motions,,,, then all of a sudden the clutch was totally stuck I at first thought it was stuck in first, but after reading this blog ... it was most likely stuck in reverse. well.... Ididnt know the trick to get it out the lock position ... so I grabbed with both my hands and totally broke it free. when we went to drive off, I couldnt put in first, the rattleing noises I heard sounded like the ther clutch just fell apart. so we costed down to the market, where my fiance came to pick us up, drove it home in first and second gears only, 3 and 4th he couldn't shift into..... He told my daughter to by shifter bushings to fix her car. he's not to familiar with this make of car to well... so I just want t make sure that this particular part will most likely fix the problem at hand.any advice or information would be greatly appreciated

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[Nick at Pelican Parts]

Hi, it sounds like the clutch has failed. It is easy enough to have someone inspect the shift linkage and bushings. With the engine off, you should be able to move it through the gears OK. If you can, but cannot when the engine is running, the clutch is faulty.

- Nick